Top Photo Enhancement Apps

Sex up your snaps with these feature-packed enhancement apps.

1. Camera+

The scale of features that this modestly priced app offers makes your standard iPhone camera look like a disposable. Included in the package are all of the virtual apparatus you need to take the perfect picture – stabilisers to eradicate blur, grids to file down unsightly angles, 6x digital zoom, and loads of effects and filters. With this app you can make any throwaway snap look epic.

Verdict:

Offers an incredible assortment of top-class features for a bafflingly-low price.

2. Adobe Photoshop Touch

This versatile app brings all of the most used features from Adobe’s desktop Photoshop program (including layers, selection tools and filters), and places them into an intuitive interface that lets you edit and develop your images on the move. However, the lack of RAW support is going to hinder many pro snappers.

Verdict:

A stunning package that provides considerable depth, all in an interface that brings magic to your fingertips.

3. Snapseed

Certainly one of the most popular photoediting apps available, Snapseed is now totally free, so you too can enjoy using well-implemented gestures to touch up your snaps. All functions can be performed manually or with the app itself determining the sharpness and hues of your images.

You can also play with filters and share your images on social networks.

Verdict:

A popular editing app with a great interface and original features.

4. Filterstorm Pro

For professionals whose photos require that extra level of attention, this suite of tools provides unrivalled depth. Everything you could ever need is here – layers, colour correction, noise-reduction, sharpening, vignetting and much more, all delivered in an iPad interface that has been developed from the ground up to make for quick and easy image enhancement on no matter where in the world you are.

Verdict:

Provides an extensive set of tools to make any image print-quality.

5. PHOTOFORGE 2

It is rare that a low-priced photo-editing app covers all bases in terms of the tools you need to bring magic to your images, but this one seemingly has everything. It has the clarity and vibrance controls lacking in Filterstorm, and the masking sorely absent in Photoshop Touch.

What’s more, everything is accessible through a dock system that makes it quick and easy to edit.

Verdict:

A brilliant all-round editing package that provides more tools than most other apps at a fraction of the price.